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*GHETTOBLASTER » 26 Mar 2025, 9:58 am » wrote: ↑

26 Mar 2025, 9:58 am

This is called "salting", when it's done covertly
Usually it's someone on the Union out of work list who is willing to work for scab wages and reduced benefits...[that the Union replaces the difference of]
The idea is for the Union Guy to show up ready to work and to put his best foot forward as a "Model of Productivity and Skill"
That's the way it is supposed to work in theory.
In actuality the Non Union workers  quite often out perform the Union Guy, thanks to not being loaded down with life saving safety equipment and for taking short cuts that are "un-workmanlike" or else against building code.

I didn't know the name for this.  I've just seen it done before - F-ing weasel.

Different scenario.  I was working out at the gym years ago - new guy from Rhode Island, comes in with his thick Yankee accent.  Anyway, he strikes up a conversation with me, I was cordial to him and he thinks I'm his friend. Maybe I was. Every day, he shows up at the gym, wanting to work out with me, and loudly complaining how the company he's working for isn't unionized, spouting off a bunch of **** about how Unions train people etc. I tried to nicely tell him "buddy, you need to pipe down and just do your work - no one where you work wants to hear about Unions, this isn't up North."  Well, he got fired within a month.  After that, he unsuccessfully looked for a job for about a month and then winded up moving back north.  He was a real thick-headed SOB.